Governance tool comparison · as of June 2026
ShareGate vs. Syskit: what IT pros need to know
Both take Microsoft 365 governance seriously. One sells it as a program to administer: plans and add-ons. The other is an operational governance layer: see what’s exposed, fix it, and keep it fixed, from one view or straight from the AI tools your team already uses. No scripts. No scattered admin centers. No guesswork.
Feature information on this page is based on publicly available ShareGate and Syskit documentation as of June 2026. Features and pricing may change. Verify with each vendor before making a purchasing decision.
Last updated: June 2026
at a glance
Pick the governance you'll do
The decision comes down to whether you're staffing a governance program or fixing real risks with the team you already have.
fix real risks now
Choose ShareGate Protect if
- Knowing who has access to what is the question on your desk: permissions matrix, oversharing, guest sprawl, Copilot exposure
- You want every capability in one plan: no tiers, no add-ons, no 100-user minimum
- Querying and fixing your tenant from Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT beats opening another admin console
- You’d rather your governance tool start read-only than hold full control of every site
- Delegated reviews, automated policies, license and storage savings, and unlimited support shouldn’t cost extra. Here they don’t; across the table they’re a tier upgrade or a paid add-on
- You already run ShareGate Migrate and want governance from the same vendor
run a
Syskit Point
program
Choose Syskit Point if
- Provisioning templates, naming policies, and approval workflows are in scope
- You need tenant-wide activity auditing with one-year (or paid longer) retention
- Scheduled report delivery and email alerts are must-haves
- You need self-hosting, custom Azure regions, or scale past 10,000 users
- Power Platform governance matters and the add-on fits your budget
Breakdown
Key differences
A full side-by-side across scope, pricing, features, and support.
Scope
Pricing model
What’s included
Permissions visibility
Govern from your AI tools
Sharing links
Guest access
Workspace lifecycle
Provisioning & naming policies
Copilot / AI readiness
Sensitivity labels
Reporting delivery & alerts
Auditing
Automation
The tool’s own access footprint
Deployment & residency
Support
Free trial
ShareGate Protect
Oversharing, guest access, sharing links, inactive workspaces, and Copilot exposure across Teams, SharePoint, Groups, and OneDrive. Find it, fix it, track the improvement.
One plan, per-user pricing, quote-based. No minimums, no usage limits, no feature tiers. Every capability available today is included.
Everything: the permissions matrix, reporting, remediation, bulk actions, policies, delegated reviews, Copilot insights, and governance from your AI tools, with unlimited support. New capabilities like the June 2026 release ship into the same plan.
Centralized permissions matrix across SharePoint and OneDrive: full content hierarchy with broken inheritance, direct user and group permissions, and sharing links surfaced per object. Results in seconds from a continuous crawl, refreshed about every 24 hours.
ShareGate MCP (Protect): surface insights, fix issues, and pull governance data from inside Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT. Remove sharing links, correct membership, and change workspace visibility in conversation, with a plain-English preview and confirmation before anything runs.
Dedicated report of anonymous and company-wide links: who created them, when, what they grant. Delete in-report, at scale, or automatically via policy.
Reports for groups with guests and external guests, plus inactive-guest identification. Fix guest issues directly from reports.
Inactive workspace and ownerless group reports, single or bulk archiving through Microsoft 365 Archive, daily policies that archive or delete automatically. Delegated reviews dispatch lifecycle, internal access, and external sharing decisions to workspace owners, with response rates tracked.
Not offered. Protect focuses on cleaning up the sprawl you have, not gatekeeping new workspaces.
See what Copilot can access and lock down what’s risky, with a readiness dashboard. Archiving outdated content improves Copilot result quality.
Visibility into labels and their settings. Labels themselves are managed in Microsoft Purview.
Natural language report builder (describe it in plain English, preview, save), prebuilt templates, saved custom reports for recurring review cycles, CSV export. Scheduled subscriptions aren’t offered; from your AI tools, Protect’s data powers any delivery workflow you already run.
Activity log of actions taken in Protect. Tenant-wide user activity auditing isn’t documented.
Daily policies for sites, groups, OneDrives, and sharing links: archive, delete, or remove links automatically. Bulk remediation across many objects at once.
Read-only by default through Microsoft’s official APIs. Metadata, not files; content is never stored. Remediation permissions are a separate consent. SOC 2 Type II.
SaaS. Data at rest in North America or Europe.
Unlimited support included. No case caps, no paid tiers.
15-day full-featured trial plus a free tenant assessment. No credit card.
Syskit Point
Governance program platform: reports, auditing, delegated reviews, provisioning, and policies across Teams, Groups, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Power Platform via paid add-on.
Four plans with published starting prices: $12 / $24 / $36 per user per year, Enterprise custom. 100-user Cloud minimum, 1,000-user Enterprise minimum, annual terms only.
Depends on the tier. Six capabilities are separate paid add-ons: Power Platform governance, License Optimization, extended audit retention, Premium Support, guided onboarding, and dedicated regional deployment.
Detailed permissions reports down to file level across the tenant, marketed as real-time.
Not documented. The Syskit Point API is in beta.
Remove links in bulk, including anonymous and company-wide. Link reviews can be delegated to workspace owners. Known limitation: removal can’t fully complete across Multi-Geo locations.
Inactive guest cleanup via policy and owner reviews. Guest last-login visibility limited to the 90-day Entra log window.
Inactive and orphaned workspace detection with owner keep/archive/delete tasks, min/max owner policies, expiration workflows.
Templates for new workspaces with naming policies, custom metadata, and approval workflows.
Copilot Readiness Dashboard as a checklist: risky links, external access, label validation. Copilot Agents monitored via the Power Platform add-on.
Label validation, management actions, and sensitivity reviews documented.
Scheduled report subscriptions by email or to SharePoint (Security plan and up), email alerts on suspicious activity and permission changes.
User, admin, file, and sharing activity auditing across SharePoint, Teams, Groups, Exchange Online, and OneDrive. One-year retention on Cloud; longer retention is a paid add-on.
Rules engine auto-applies policies to existing and new workspaces; vulnerability tasks dispatched to workspace owners.
App registration includes full control on all SharePoint sites, and its service principal is added to the Exchange Administrator role. ISO 27001 certified, AES-256 at rest.
SaaS (US, Europe, Asia-Pacific regions) or self-hosted in your Azure at the Enterprise tier, with additional installation and onboarding fees. Other regions via paid add-on.
Standard support capped at 20 cases per year, weekday CET hours, no remote assistance. Faster SLAs and senior engineers via the paid Premium Support add-on.
21-day trial of the Governance edition, no credit card, no extensions. PDF exports watermarked during trial.
Pricing
One plan vs. Plans and add-ons
Syskit publishes starting prices, and credit where due: $12, $24, and $36 per user per year across its three Cloud plans. The phrase doing the heavy lifting is “starting at.” Volume pricing is quoted, the Cloud minimum bills you for 100 users even if you have 60, terms are annual only, and the capabilities IT teams ask about next (Power Platform governance, longer audit retention, faster support, guided onboarding) are sold as separate paid add-ons. ShareGate Protect is one per-user price for everything available today: no minimums, no usage limits, no tiers. Neither vendor prints your final number on the site. The difference is how many line items it takes to get there.
Plans
Published pricing
Minimums & caps
Add-ons
Support included
Onboarding
Trial
ShareGate Protect
One. All current capabilities included.
Per-user model published; quote tailored to your tenant. No minimums, no usage limits.
No minimums, no usage limits. Guests not counted. One production tenant per subscription.
None today. Future modules optional.
Unlimited support. No case caps.
Self-serve; no maintenance or onboarding fees.
15 days, full-featured, plus a free tenant assessment. No credit card.
Syskit Point
Four: Management, Security, Governance, Enterprise. Features gate by tier.
Starting prices published ($12–$36/user/year). Exact and volume pricing via calculator or sales. Enterprise is custom, minimum 1,000 users.
100-user Cloud minimum (billed even below it), 10,000-user Cloud cap, annual terms only. Guests counted only if licensed.
Six: Power Platform, License Optimization, Extended Audit Retention (2–7 years), Premium Support, Guided Onboarding, Managed Dedicated Deployment. All priced via sales.
20 cases per year on standard support; weekday CET hours; remote assistance not available. Premium Support is a paid add-on.
Self-serve by default; Guided Onboarding is a paid add-on. Self-hosted Enterprise requires installation and onboarding fees.
21 days, Governance edition, no credit card. No extensions; PDF exports watermarked.
Syskit pricing and licensing verified from syskit.com/pricing and docs.syskit.com as of June 2026. ShareGate Protect pricing model from sharegate.com/pricing as of June 2026; ShareGate provides exact quotes per tenant. Confirm current pricing directly with each vendor before budgeting.
CAPABILITY deep dives
Go deeper on what matters to you
Pick the risk area that applies to your project.
Oversharing & permissions
Both tools answer “who has access to what.” The difference is what happens in the ten minutes after you find out.
Coverage
Risk detection
Remediation
Permissions matrix
Custom reporting
Data freshness
ShareGate Protect
Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Groups, and Entra ID in one view. No scripts, no manual exports.
Built-in governance risk assessment: public groups, “Everyone” access, broken inheritance, ownerless teams, with impact-tagged insights and trend graphs.
Fix issues where you find them: unsafe links, external and guest access, membership and owner assignment, broken inheritance repair, narrowing broad internal access. Bulk actions with a full action log on every change.
Centralized web-based matrix across SharePoint and OneDrive: content hierarchy down to documents, broken inheritance, sharing links per object, and permission buckets (Full control, Write, Read, Limited Access, Custom). Progressive rendering means results appear as the crawl progresses.
Natural language report builder: describe what you need in plain English and preview before saving. Filters, custom columns, security groups inventory, up to 100 saved reports per user.
Most data refreshed every 24 hours. Sharing-link crawls on very large tenants can take longer on first run.
Syskit Point
Teams, Groups, SharePoint sites, OneDrive, and users. Power Platform assets via paid add-on.
Permissions reports down to file level; policies flag too many members, private workspaces shared with Everyone, ownership gaps.
Single and bulk actions on permissions and memberships, plus tasks dispatched to workspace owners.
Permissions reports down to file level with drill-down across the tenant.
Real-time reports with drill-down across the tenant.
Marketed as real-time; guest login history limited to the 90-day Entra log window.
Sharing links & guest access
The two everyday leaks in every M365 tenant. Both tools take them seriously; they get there differently.
Link visibility
Link cleanup
Guest visibility
Guest cleanup
ShareGate Protect
Every anonymous and company-wide link in the tenant: who created it, when, what it grants, and where it points.
Delete links directly in the report, at scale, or automatically with a sharing-links policy that runs daily.
Groups-with-guests and external-guests reports, inactive guest identification, organization-level sharing settings surfaced in tenant info.
Remove or fix guest access directly from reports, including in bulk.
Syskit Point
External sharing reports covering guests, shared content, and links.
Bulk link removal, including anonymous and org-wide links; link reviews delegated to owners. Removal can’t fully complete across Multi-Geo locations (documented limitation).
Inactive guest detection and automated removal via policy; shadow-user detection in workspace reviews.
Policy-driven removal of inactive guests; owner reviews include guest decisions.
Copilot & sensitivity labels
Copilot doesn’t create oversharing problems. It surfaces the ones you already have, at chat speed. Both vendors agree; here’s what each does about it.
Copilot exposure
Risky content
Sensitivity labels
Govern from AI tools
Copilot agents
ShareGate Protect
See what Copilot can access, with a readiness dashboard, and lock down what’s risky before rollout.
Find and remove “Anyone” links, broad access, and stale content. Archiving outdated content improves Copilot result quality.
Visibility into labels and their settings; labels are managed in Microsoft Purview, where they belong.
Surface governance insights, fix issues, and pull reporting data from inside Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT. Every action shows a plain-English preview and requires confirmation; conversationally created policies start paused.
Not documented.
Syskit Point
Copilot Readiness Dashboard as a checklist of actions to reduce AI exposure risk.
Remove risky links and external access that could surface through AI responses.
Label validation, management, and sensitivity reviews; workspaces-without-a-label policy.
Not documented. The Syskit Point API is in beta.
Monitored via the Power Platform add-on.
Workspace lifecycle
Different philosophies. Protect cleans up the sprawl you already have. Syskit also gatekeeps what gets created, if you’re ready to run that program.
Inactive workspaces
Archiving
Automation
Provisioning
Owner involvement
ShareGate Protect
Inactive workspace and ownerless group reports, with an adjustable inactivity window. Cost insights put a dollar value on license and storage waste.
Single or bulk archiving through Microsoft 365 Archive (requires M365 Archive enabled in your tenant). Restore via the M365 admin center.
Daily policies archive or delete matching sites, groups, and OneDrives automatically. Actions are logged in the activity log.
Not offered.
Delegated reviews dispatched to workspace owners directly from Protect. You control what owners decide: lifecycle, internal access, external sharing. Response rates tracked, with a history of every action taken.
Syskit Point
Inactive workspace detection with automated keep/archive/delete tasks sent to owners.
Archiving available within expiration workflows.
Rules engine applies policies to existing and new workspaces; min/max owner and membership policies.
Workspace request templates with naming policies, custom metadata, and approval workflows.
Owners review and decide via tasks and recurring workspace reviews, with reminders and escalations.
Reporting, auditing & alerts
Dashboards
Report building
Report delivery
Alerts
Activity auditing
Cost insights
ShareGate Protect
Overview with workspace cards, governance insights tagged by impact, security and cost categories, remediation trend over time.
Natural language report builder with preview before saving, prebuilt templates, saved custom reports for recurring review cycles, shareable evidence snapshots for leadership and partners.
In-app with CSV export. No scheduled subscriptions; via your AI tools, Protect’s data feeds any delivery format you already use (PDFs, decks, Confluence, Slack, client reports).
Not documented today.
Activity log of actions taken in Protect, for accountability on remediation.
Dollar-value insights on license and storage inefficiencies, plus inactive users holding paid P1/P2 licenses.
Syskit Point
Tenant dashboards and detailed drill-down reports.
Report templates with drill-down and export.
Scheduled subscriptions as Excel or PDF, by email or to a SharePoint library (Security plan and up).
Email alerts on suspicious actions, sharing, permission and admin changes (Security plan and up).
User, admin, file, and sharing auditing across five workloads. One-year Cloud retention; 2–7 years via paid add-on.
License Optimization available as a paid add-on.
Feature and pricing information verified from public ShareGate and Syskit sources as of June 2026. Confirm current scope with each vendor before purchasing.
Support & buying experience
Support model
Onboarding
Trial
Buying experience
ShareGate Protect
Unlimited support included. No case caps, no paid support tiers. G2 Best Support badge (Mid-Market).
Self-serve, no onboarding fees.
15-day full-featured trial plus a free tenant assessment, no credit card. See your own tenant’s risks before you spend anything.
One plan to evaluate; the only question is user count. An ROI calculator on sharegate.com shows leadership what oversharing, access drift, and sprawl are costing before you spend anything. One calculator computes your savings; the other computes their price.
Syskit Point
Standard support capped at 20 cases per year, weekday CET hours, no remote assistance. Premium Support is a paid add-on; dedicated CSM at Enterprise only.
Self-serve by default; Guided Onboarding paid add-on; self-hosted Enterprise carries installation and onboarding fees.
21-day Governance-edition trial, no credit card, no extensions, watermarked PDF exports.
Four plans, six add-ons, two deployment models, and a pricing calculator to navigate before you know your number.
See your tenant first. Decide second.
Know who has access to what. And keep it that way.
Get a free assessment of your tenant. Then 15 days to try everything, no credit card, no minimums.
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The information on this page comparing ShareGate Protect and Syskit Point is provided for informational purposes only. All product comparisons are based on publicly available information as of June 2026, including syskit.com product and pricing pages, Syskit Point documentation at docs.syskit.com, Syskit’s published support agreement, and ShareGate documentation on sharegate.com and help.sharegate.com. Features, pricing, and performance data are subject to change. For the most current information about Syskit Point, please visit Syskit’s website.
ShareGate Protect capabilities described on this page reflect the June 2026 release, including Permissions Visibility, Delegated Reviews, and ShareGate MCP (Protect) for governance actions and data access through AI tools. ShareGate makes no representation regarding the accuracy or completeness of any third-party product information presented on this page. This comparison does not constitute a warranty or guarantee regarding the performance or functionality of any product.